A Blue Plaque to remember the Match Girls’ Strike

One of the most important strikes in modern British history has been commemorated by English Heritage with a blue plaque at the site of the former Bryant and May match factory in East London where in July 1888 around 1,400 of the predominantly female workforce walked out in protest at the dismissal of a number of their co-workers.
(c) English Heritage
The sacked workers were suspected of talking to newspapers about the appalling conditions they worked under at the factory, not just the poor wage